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by DINKDINK 10y ago
They VeraCrypt developer claims to have fixed several weaknesses in the TrueCrypt codebase in this interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgjsDS4ynq8 Will be interesting to follow the audit.
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
Off-topic: That's a great favicon
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
My guess is that "United States vs Bitcoin wallet" could be an instance of civil forfeiture, where instead of going through the steps required to prosecute someone, US authorities are putting literally money in the defense positio
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
IANAL but unless criminal and civil trial instructions for juries are drastically different, there are several inaccuracies in that comment at least for juries in California. -Juries are allowed to take notes. -Juries are allowed to submit
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
>I can't say I am a big believer in the whole concept of juries Care to elaborate on your objections? Juries exist so that it limits the ability of the State / prosecutors or defense teams from lobbying or coercing 'profe
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
Your post is a great description of the phenomenon that Tableb describes in his book Antifragility, as "Lecturing Birds how to fly" [1] Essentially the argument is: we learn by doing and formalize that knowledge in research. Bird
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
>it can be irritating to suddenly have 50 people show up at a national landmark because it has now become part of a video game Do you know really need to know why someone is in a public space so we can cast aspersions?
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
>How can someone think [VHS Video is] superior to modern alternatives? There are two camps of people in the legacy-media market, collectors/nostalgists, archivist. There are many nostaligists who enjoy vinyl for the warm feeling it
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
>"Computers don't just do things! People make computers do things. Every thing a computer does is something humans are responsible for." I think the angle your father was coming at this was, computers are deterministic. T
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
What do you think is reasonable? The video game industry market cap is around 17e9 USD2015[0]. Unity accounts for ~9% of the value. I'm not sure if it's an accurate valuation but it doesn't seem to be a ridiculous percentag
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A robot, a bomb, and 6 dead people in Dallas(medium.com)
1 points by DINKDINK 10y ago|0 comments
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
Wayback machine's oldest archive is February 2002. https://web.archive.org/web/20020220073637/http://www.cipher...
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
Let's assume that someone had the capability to read your thoughts without your consent. An oppressive regime would thrive with this technology: Scan everyone's brain to detect undesirables to the state. Communications between m
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
>Props to Uber for execution, but all the pieces were there. Much innovation looks very easy from an ex-post perspective. Putting wheels on a suitcase etc.
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
The reason shotgun microphones are used is because the polar pattern[1] is highly directionally. Basically the amount of sound that a shotgun type microphone picks up is very strong in one direction and less in another. This reduces perip
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
>[D]o Lightning's channels only reduce on-chain transaction volume in the case of recurring payments (eg subscriptions)? Payment channels and consequently the Lightning Network (LN), assuming a sufficiently connection routing networ
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
I took part in a taste testing for a "revolutionary new vegetarian burger" in the past few months in the SF Bay Area. It was marketed for upscale locations. That said, it was incredibly good to the point I asked one of the resear
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
Digital Currencies have the fanaticism of cults but without the removal of freewill of participants.
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
It would seem this is only helpful if you have more outflow of payments than inflow. If other customers/suppliers are using the same tactic, all it does is slow down delivering products and services.
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
>[Steve Jobs] was a genius who essentially invented new product categories What product categories did Steve/Apple invent? All of their major breakthroughs (iPod, iPhone, iPad) were already existing product categories but Apple jus
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
Thanks for that stunningly beautiful commentary. /s
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
>gotten a total 35% raise since starting Relatively meaningless percentage if you don't state over what time period. One could ballpark the minimum %/time.
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
My explanation that doesn't cover all the use cases: How do you authorize/prove ownership in a digital domain: Public-key Cryptography. How do you order entries in a public, permissionless database: By forcing computers to expend
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
>Remotely invoke security commands to limit damage and protect data during a security incident Gleefully awaiting the day when this is exploited by an attacker.
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
>As a VC investor, having a company incorporated outside the US introduces additional legal risk. An interesting counterpoint, for many startups in the Bitcoin / Cryptocurrency space, incorporating /in/ the US is seen as a
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
>I think you can easily fit a day's worth of video on an 8GB ssd I'm not a video expert but 8GB seems drastically inadequate for meaningful resolution / frame rate. I estimate roughly 291 Kbps which does allow you much re
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
Ignore these statistics, they're reporting average debt of credit cards. The level of debt per card is not an independent variable. You need to be reporting median debt.
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
Iatrogenics needs to be discussed more, thank you for your contribution regarding this topic
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by DINKDINK 10y ago
I'm not certain but I believe the last time Wright was suspected of being Satoshi, he had some business venture he was trying to promote. Could be a repeat of last time.
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In Eyes, a Clock Calibrated by Wavelengths of Light(nytimes.com)
1 points by DINKDINK 11y ago|0 comments

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